Second Lieutenant EDMUND PYTHIAN ROBERT READ
Regiment & Unit/Ship
2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)
3rd Bn.
Date of Death
Died 28 June 1942
Age 19 years old
- Country of Service Indian
- Additional Info Son of Walter Thomas Read and Pauline Read, of Basra, Iraq.
- Personal Inscription HIS LIFE A BEAUTIFUL MEMORY, HIS ABSENCE A DEEP, SILENT SORROW. MUM AND DAD
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